This resource guide is intended to help advocates and local leaders make common-sense improvements to current voter removal practices and oppose bad bills that limit access to the ballot.
Leaders must reject false choices rooted in the idea that social and economic advancement is a zero-sum game or that working-class people must spar over scraps while all the spoils go to the elite few.
These executive actions are a clear signal of this administration’s enduring hostility toward the fundamental right to vote, citizenship for immigrants, and empowered workers.
The concurrence of today’s presidential inauguration and Martin Luther King Jr. Dayunderscores the promise of the multiracial democracy Dr. King envisioned and highlights the stark test our country is about to embark on.
These proof of citizenship bills capitalize on anti-immigrant sentiment and perpetuate outright lies to justify restrictive practices that will make it harder for everyone to vote.
The administration’s detention and removal of immigrants without free speech, due process, and judicial authority is a crisis for immigrants and a sign that our democracy is in peril.
Ending birthright citizenship would deprive millions of Americans of their foundational right to a representative government and would fundamentally alter and degrade the democratic equality that all citizens enjoy.
From the heart of economic justice advocacy to the corridors of the Department of Labor, Gould-Werth's journey exemplifies the power of leveraging research in the service of equity and community.
The Trump Administration's latest string of attacks on immigrant communities represents an extreme overreach of federal power, violates our fundamental rights, and threatens to undermine our democracy.